D600 Wireless Question

Yes, if I disable WEP security, it connects and I can ping the access point and see the rest of the office network.

I had copied the key from the access point to the Cisco card config before. But I changed the key in the access point and copied the new key to the Cisco card and voila - it is now working.

Thank you so much for your help and following me on this one.

Jim

I do have one last question. The main reason I was setting up the wireless network connection was that when I make a VPN connection from my business laptop (via a D-Link Router/Firewall) through my home office Linksys router to my company network, I cannot see/use my home office printers connected to the other computers. This is frustrating and I was trying to avoid unplugging and re-plugging printer cables all of the time.

I was hoping that I could access my home office lan via the wireless adapter at the same time I had a VPN connection via the cable broadband. I logged on to the VPN and then made the wireless connection. The connection reports good but I am not able to see/ping anything on my home office network. So I guess this is not going to work.

Any ideas how to address my printer access problem?

That could very well be a VPN access policy setting. Some VPN servers can send a policy to their clients that disallows access to other machines on the client LAN while the VPN session is active. The idea is to prevent any worms/viruses that are active on the client LAN from using the VPN connection to infect the network that the VPN client's connected to.

There may be a setting in the VPN client that by default honors the policy. Whether the policy can be overriden depends on the specifics of the VPN client and server.

Jim

Jim,

Thanks again for your help.

Jim

Thanks but I am using a custom VPN client provided by my company. I dont' see how to get to "VPN properties".

Jim,

There may be a similar setting for the VPN client you have. Not all VPN products have online manuals. If yours does, you might want to take a look at their Web site and see if the feature is available. The feature "use default gateway on remote network" is common to many clients. If it's selected, that would produce the symptom you're seeing.

I'll be glad to see if I can help find out if you'll post or PM me the name of the VPN client you're using.

(edit) Also, the VPN support people at your company should be able to tell you whether such a feature exists or not.

(edit 2) If it's Cisco's VPN client, McGill University has a nicely illustrated setup guide for it. You'll find the setting pertaining to LAN access under Options/Properties/General. It's the checkbox "Allow local LAN Access".

Jim

Message Edited by jimw on 06-18-2004 12:44 PM

Message Edited by jimw on 06-18-2004 01:11 PM

I found that it is a Cisco VPN. I did find the "properties" tab for the VPN connection and there is a place to check "allow local LAN access".

After making the VPN connection, with the wireless connection off, I cannot see my local network.

I then activated the wireless connection. IThe connection indicates good but  cannot ping my local network computers or see then anywhere. The wireless connection shows "enabled, bridged under network connections. If I check the VPN connection status, it indicates local lan access: disabled. Possibly they have this feature overridden?

If I check the VPN connection status, it indicates local lan access: disabled. Possibly they have this feature overridden?

Yep! It's possible to download a policy from the VPN server when a connection is being set up that will disallow local LAN access regardless of the client setting. Time for a chat with the VPN support folks!

Jim

Oh well. Thanks anyway for all of your help.

Jim

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